For we Know in Part, and Prophesy in Part · 6:05am Feb 25th, 2014
I'm rushing a Baptist School fraternity and it is killing me. My legs and arms and head mind and also my memory.
But I have this really awesome K. looook
Yes it does not yet have the requisite number of signatures >.>
I'm considering trying a longform romance. I'm not sure what the pairing would even be... I just want to have a long form story where all the chapter titles are quotations from Corinthians 13 because I feel like that would make me happy. Do you guys have any ideas/suggestions? No promises, but it may get me thinking! Honestly, right now, I'm thinking about ShiningCadence? WHAT IF THERE WAS ADVENTURE
Well, life has been strange and new and hard, recently. I'm adjusting to being single still, mostly by being an insomniac, watching tons of anime, and writing a lot. One of the animes I've been watchin' recently is Log Horizon. It is a pretty good anime, I think, despite it's horrific pacing which is... idiomatic? Each episode leads into another really well, but it's weird how they do it. It's like... I can't decide if the pacing is bad or not. In some ways, in fact in lots, it is both similar and radically different from Sword Art Online.
Basically, 30,000 people get physically stuck in an MMO. This MMO is its own world, with its own rules, and these players are now adventurers with no real constraints, it seems. Dying just sends them back to the Cathedral in the cities. They get hungry but can't really die from it, and food is incredibly easy to get (if tasteless at first), and so ennui sets in... until a man named Shiroe realizes that life is freedom. Maybe. That life may be, anyhow.
Where SAO focused on the characters and got inside of their heads and was REALLY concerned with their emotional states... Log Horizon is far less so. Now, you know that certain characters like each other, and insight into them, but Log Horizon is mainly focused on the world and the implications of the scenario. It's the approach of soft scifi to hard scifi, I think, comparing SAO/.hack to Log Horizon. It's not that Log Horizon ignores characters, it simply is very cognizant of the larger implications of the scenario--like, well, NPCs, which were NOT addressed, really, in SAO. I won't spoil it, because as each revelation is rolled out, Log Horizon becomes a bumpy ride!
The beginning is meh but the middle is excellent and now as we close in on the end of season one, it's really, reallygreat. I sincerely hope there will be more but kinda doubt it. I want Akatsuki and Shiroe FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER. Shiroe himself is similar to Kirito from Sword Art in that he's a loner, but his reasons for being a loner are really relateable and honestly for the first time the whole "Smart Loner Glasses Guy" cliche/trope makes sense.
So you should totes watch that, yo.
I can actually imagine Akatsuki wearing the black robes with red clouds.
Write a TwiJack or TwiDash. Just something with Twilight.
Shining and Cadence in some frozen north marital adventure honestly sounds more interesting than another inter mane 6 story. It could totally go the "careful what you wish for" route.
1872251 ... I actuallly
um
like just plotted what you described out
in a google doc. WITH LOTS OF WORDS.
I don't have any preference, but uh, something het? Does that make me a bad person?
1872314 Naw, just someone with a preference.
Which you're in luck for, as I plan to do Shining Cadence
Hey! You are still alive!
You want me to watch TV show?
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I'd be happy just to have time to write at this point. Fucking college.
Hope rushing goes well! Good luck and all that.
I'm in for ShiningCadance. And a story based around/inspired by Corinthians 13 sounds lovely.
I was going to suggest Log Horizon to you, but I figured you wouldn't enjoy it as much as SAO because it wasn't as...deep(?) I like it for what it is, but there are so many abuses of anime tropes that it's a bit infuriating. If I see Shiro adjust his glasses needlessly (yet dramatically) one more time, I think I might scream! I wear glasses myself and every time I see him push them up his nose, I feel like I need to do the same thing, so watching that show must look a little manic from the outside. In any case, it's entertaining enough. I'm glad you're enjoying it!
1879290 Dude, I wore glasses after I got contacts solely t push them up and/or down at dramatic moments or for effect.
I love it! The anime cliches are annoying sometimes, but othertimes they're kinda cute. The whole "kawaii-desu" thing going on with Akatsuki is starting to become something substantial, I think.